Hunt down

The middle-aged man got into the security room and called someone. Zhou Jiming saw him nodded, then pressed the switch, and the door opened.

The sound of the two large iron gates moving clumsily was particularly harsh in this secluded orphanage. Zhou Jiming drove the car in, and asked Song Nai to sit in the car and wait for him.

Opposite the gate of the orphanage is a hall for handling formalities, where you can register your personal information and whether there are relatives coming to visit.The two sides are lined up separately, and there are five floors respectively. The windows are basically half-closed, and no children's voices can be heard.

The middle-aged man led Zhou Jiming upstairs in the hall. His body bent slightly, and he stretched out his hand to point the way for Zhou Jiming. "I don't know what kind of report Police Officer Zhou received?"

"A girl said that her money was stolen." Zhou Jiming said perfunctorily.

The middle-aged man believed it was true, and wondered, "How can you bother me to come by if you steal money?"

As soon as the words fell, there was a sound of footsteps behind them. Zhou Jiming looked back, and Song Nai still followed.He followed behind Zhou Jiming without saying anything.

"Then why aren't you curious, why did she choose to call the police instead of your teacher when her things were stolen?" Zhou Jiming looked at the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man's smile froze, and then he floated up again, "How do I know that, are you right? Maybe it's children fooling around. These days, children regard the police as heroes who save the world."

"Really?" Zhou Jiming smiled inexplicably.

The three walked to the elevator, and the middle-aged man pressed the "Up" button, "Our dean is a nice person, and she is kind to the children and teachers. She will definitely cooperate with your investigation."

Zhou Jiming smiled, looked around and asked casually, "Why didn't you look at the child?"

"Ah, they are going to eat now, and they have all gone to the cafeteria, so you can't see anyone here."

"Where is the canteen?"

"At the back, go around this back door and walk a little further."

"Ding!" The elevator arrived.

"Are the children here so quiet when they are eating and resting?" Zhou Jiming got on the elevator first, and he turned to the side so that Song Nai could go to the innermost part.

"Ah, yes, the educational philosophy here is like this, so the children are not too noisy." The middle-aged man followed into the elevator and pressed "5".

"What educational philosophy?"

"Hmm..." The middle-aged man thought for a moment, "It's only quiet." When he said this, he glanced at Song Nai. And people with great looks are a little curious.

Zhou Jiming moved his body to stand in front of Song Nai, his chin raised, and he glanced at the floor, "Here we are."

The middle-aged man withdrew his eyes tactfully, the elevator opened, and he bowed his body and said, "Please."

As soon as he got out of the elevator, a man with a cigarette in his mouth walked up to him. This man was tall and thin, with sunken cheekbones and thick bags under his eyes. He looked like someone who hadn't closed his eyes for days and nights. His face was filled with depression.He was startled when he saw Zhou Jiming standing in front of him, then he poked a cigarette on the trash can next to him, and threw it in after the cigarette went out.

"Teacher Guo." The middle-aged man greeted him.

This Teacher Guo nodded slightly, and he was still looking at Zhou Jiming from the corner of his eye.

"Let's go, Officer Zhou." The middle-aged man also said this to Mr. Guo. He didn't stop after hearing what he said, and walked past them and entered the elevator.

The corridor on the fifth floor was very wide, Zhou Jiming pulled Song Nai to his side, and walked side by side with him.

This floor is basically the teacher's office. At this moment, there is basically no one in the office. The door is wide open, and the inside is empty, only the sound of books being flipped when the wind blows in through the window.

Zhou Jiming noticed that when he first entered the orphanage, when he looked downstairs, almost all the windows were slightly open, but now that he was upstairs, almost all the windows were wide open again, and he couldn't help feeling puzzled.

"Here we are." The middle-aged man stopped in front of a purple-red wooden door in the middle of the entire floor, and he asked between the cracks of the door, "Dean, the police are here."

There was no response from the room, Zhou Jiming heard the sound of footsteps coming from far to near inside, walked to the door in a calm manner as if taking a walk, and opened the door.

The person who opened the door was a woman about 50 years old. She had a very elegant posture, her hair was neatly coiled, and she wore light makeup. Her emerald green earrings set her off very white. She was wearing a beige suit and a pair of brown pumps. , the whole person looks elegant and capable.

"Please come in." The dean greeted Zhou Jiming and Song Nai with a smile, and the middle-aged man was waiting by the side.

"I heard from him that you are here to investigate the case. What happened to us?" The dean talked openly. She poured a glass of water for Zhou Jiming and Song Nai, but they didn't touch each other until the end.

"Yesterday, our bureau received a report from a boy named 'Jiang Jiale'. He said that someone was trying to harm him, and the phone was hung up in a hurry, so we guessed that the situation might be developing in a bad direction, so we came to Investigate."

The middle-aged man looked at Zhou Jiming with wide eyes, how could this be a lie?

The dean leaned his waist against his one-meter-wide desk, holding two business cards in his hand, and gave each of them one, "Jiang Jiale? We don't have this child here?"

Zhou Jiming glanced at the business card, the dean's name was Xu Fuyue.

"The child said he was in the Huixin Orphanage." Zhou Jiming planned to cheat.

"No, no, maybe it's a child who was adopted from here, and I remembered the wrong location." Xu Fuyue said with a smile.

"There is a roster."

Xu Fuyue kept talking with Zhou Jiming, but she didn't notice that the words came from Song Nai's mouth. She looked at Song Nai as if asking for proof, "What?"

"All the children in this orphanage should be registered, right? Then there must be a roster." Song Nai sat very close to Zhou Jiming, which seemed to give him great courage to look directly at Xu Fuyue.

Xu Fuyue took a sip of the coffee beside her, and when the bottom of the cup stood up to cover half of her eyes, she smiled, with coldness and mockery in her eyes.

"I didn't expect this police officer to know us well. We do have a roster, but generally in order to prevent information leakage, we don't let people see it easily." Xu Fuyue put down her glass, turned and went to the bookshelf half a meter away from the desk, " But since the police are here to investigate the case, we must cooperate."

Xu Fuyue flipped through the folders on the second floor from the top to the bottom of the cabinet, her searching hand stopped beside the green folder, and she took it out, "Here, fortunately, I put it in a conspicuous place " Xu Fuyue looked happy from the bottom of her heart, she took the initiative to open the roster and handed it to Song Nai.

Song Nai took the roster and looked through it with Zhou Jiming.The roster is not thick, about ten pages, but each page has more than 100 names, so it seems a bit laborious.

Half an hour passed, the roster was flipped through both sides, but Jiang Jiale's name was still not seen.Although both Zhou Jiming and Song Nai suspect that this list may be fake, there is no search warrant and they are not sure where it really is, so they can only take this list as the standard for the time being.

Jiang Jiale couldn't find it, but there was another person's name that caught their eyes—Dun Ning.

That was Song Nai's original name, he had stayed here before, so was the appearance of this name a coincidence?

"Can you bring this kid named 'Dunning' over to show us?" Zhou Jiming asked.

"Oh? Didn't you say it was called 'Jiang Jiale' just now, why is it called 'Dunning' now?"

"A relative in the family got lost, let's see if it's the same person." Song Nai answered quickly.

The wrinkles in Xu Fuyue's smiling eyes deepened, and she winked at the middle-aged man, "Fu Gang, go and bring this child here." When the middle-aged man opened the door, Xu Fuyue added, "I know who it is Bar?"

"I know, don't worry."

Seeing the closed door, Xu Fuyue straightened up, walked back to her seat by the desk, and sat down. Half of her face was covered by the computer screen, and half of her face was exposed, "He is my younger brother, named Xu Fugang, silly You're so stupid, didn't you just treat you two unreasonably?"

"Oh, it turns out they are relatives. I really didn't see it for a while." Zhou Jiming said.

"Normal, that's what everyone says. He's been sloppy since he was a child, and he's been bullied all the time. I have to protect him."

"It can be seen that Dean Xu is a very capable person."

Xu Fuyue smiled, and her eyes glanced at Song Nai who was sitting next to Zhou Jiming from time to time, "This police officer looks thin and tender, unlike you, can this body fight criminals?"

"Of course." Zhou Jiming said, "I have just been saved by him, and I am still in debt."

"Oh?" Xu Fuyue looked at Song Nai, "I really can't tell, after all, beauties can't stand the trouble these days."

Song Nai lowered his head, his forehead was sweating, memories of more than ten years ago began to appear in his mind from time to time, and he remembered a person's voice.

"Let's go, Xiao Ning, don't come back after you leave."

who's that person?Why can't he remember who that person is.

"I'll help you."

"I can't go with you."

"Xiao Ning, goodbye."

who?It feels so close, why is it stuck in that place and can't get out, who is it?

Song Nai's mind was in a panic, and his hand flipping through the roster soaked the paper, leaving a finger mark on it.

"Sonnai...Sonnai?"

Who is talking in my ear, who, and who!

"Song Nai, what's wrong with you?"

It was him, he remembered the voice, it was Zhou Jiming.

Who held his hand, it was so warm.

"Sonny?"

Zhou Jiming approached, wiped off the sweat from Song Nai's temples with his hands, rubbed himself, and went to shake Song Nai's hand.

It's so wrong, Zhou Jiming thought, when he goes back, he must ask Song Nai exactly what happened during the time he was here.

Xu Fuyue looked at Song Nai's inexplicable performance, and she suddenly felt that the look in front of her was a little shy, but she had no intention of retreating. She had seen it a long time ago, so long that she couldn't remember it at all.

"Dean, someone brought it here." Xu Fugang said standing at the door.

"Bring it in."

"Dun Ning" was brought in. The kid who came in was quite tall. He should be only half a head behind Song Nai. He was very thin. He lowered his head, shrunk his neck timidly, and walked to Xu Fuyue's office wearing long-sleeved trousers. At the desk, he kept rubbing the hem of his shirt with his hands, looking very nervous.

Wearing long-sleeved trousers on such a hot day, Zhou Jiming subconsciously glanced at Song Nai.

Song Nai came back to his senses, his collar was already wet with sweat, he looked up at "Dunning", and uttered with difficulty from his throat, "You are...Dunning?"

"Quickly, turn around and let the police uncle take a good look to see if you are the Dunning they are looking for."

The child obviously became more nervous when he heard the word "policeman". He turned around slowly, with his head down, not daring to look at Zhou Jiming and Song Nai.

"We came from the Li City Public Security Bureau, don't be nervous, come on, tell us, what's your name?" Zhou Jiming asked.

"Say it quickly, don't be afraid, just tell them who you are honestly, it won't be a big deal." Xu Fuyue looked full of patience.

"My name is...Deng...Dunning."

"Is he a lost relative of your family?" Xu Fuyue asked.

Song Nai was a little disappointed, he kept looking at "Dunning", hoping that he could take a look at himself and muster some courage...but "Dunning" never looked up.

"No." Song Nai said in a low voice.

"Okay, take the child to rest, it's time for a nap." Xu Fuyue said to Xu Fugang.

"If the two police officers have nothing else to do, don't delay. I also have some other things to deal with here. Two, please go back?"

"Thank you for your cooperation, excuse me." Zhou Jiming stood up, looking thoughtfully at the back of "Dunning".

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Xu Fugang sent them to the gate and was about to leave, but Zhou Jiming closed the car door and told Xu Fugang that he wanted to take another look at the kid "Dunning". Xu Fugang wanted to do it all at once, so he brought Zhou Jiming and Song Nai went.

When they arrived at the children's dormitory, Song Nai said that he wanted to ask Xu Fugang about something in private, so he dragged him to talk elsewhere, and Zhou Jiming went to see "Dunning" alone.

Xu Fugang was worried that the two of them were cheating, so he went to find Zhou Jiming without talking, but he saw Zhou Jiming downstairs on the way. The short time was only 5 minutes, and Xu Fugang expected that he could do nothing.

Xu Fugang was worried that the two of them would make trouble again, so he quickly sent them out of the house. After the car drove a long way, Song Nai turned his head to look at Zhou Jiming, "How is it? Really?"

Zhou Jiming was deep in thought.

"it's him."

Before the two left Xu Fuyue's office, they had a short exchange. Zhou Jiming indicated that Song Nai would hold Xu Fugang later, and he was going to find out if "Dunning" was really "Dunning".

Zhou Jiming went up to the dormitory building and found the room of "Dunning". He pretended to pass by the door and called "Dunning" three times, but there was no answer.

Zhou Jiming looked at the "Dunning" dormitory, and found that he had been sitting on the bed staring at him, but he didn't agree.

So Zhou Jiming changed his name, and he called softly, "Jiang Jiale?"

The child's eyes were slightly mournful, as if he was about to cry, he nodded slightly to Zhou Jiming.